Richard Paul
Bio
Bully Prevention Bio
Richard is a high energy, value driven, school assembly and educational conference presenter. He shares his passion for bully prevention education to audiences in both the United States and Canada. More than 600,000 students, teachers, counselors and administrators have heard his message. Each of his bully prevention and safe school programs offer an exceptionally creative and content rich presentation on self-esteem, character building, anti-bullying, cyber bullying, success skills and positive behavior support. His school assemblies and educational conference programs offer tools teachers, administrators, parents and students can implement to prevent and reduce bullying issues.
Richard holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Oakland University in Communications and Marketing, he is an award winning educational speaker and author. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Detroit News, Fox News and was part of a national bully prevention expert panel on Voice America.
Born with a birth defect (his right arm is missing three fingers and shorter than his left), he has never let this so-called disability prevent him from living his dreams.
At age 11, Richard taught himself ventriloquism and at 12, he began to sharpen his business and presentation skills by producing and marketing a weekly show in his parent’s garage. He would charge 10 cents to get in and 25 cents to get out.
In his early years Richard worked at Sears as a credit authorizer and performed ventriloquist shows and puppet shows throughout Michigan. When he decided to leave the so called “real job” and start his own entertainment company, his boss told him that “he would be back,” but he was wrong. Throughout the late 70’s, 80’s and 90’s Richard’s company grew and so did his conference keynote speaking engagements and ventriloquist shows.
At a teacher’s conference in Lansing, Michigan, a teacher suggested that Richard start speaking at schools presenting self-esteem and diversity awareness programs. Soon after he produced his first bully prevention program, “I Feel Good,” a program that promotes self-esteem, self-respect and understanding and couple years later he added a conflict resolution, anger management program.
In the early 1990’s several teachers requested that he produce a school bullying program that would be funny but still explain what bullying is and what a student can do if they are being bullied. Richard knew what he wanted to say, but didn’t know how he could make it funny and still be educational. After a couple years of research and several re-writes, Richard’s No Bully Club program was born. It continues to be hit at middle school assemblies and elementary school assemblies throughout the United States and Canada. He now even has clients from Japan, England, Germany, Scotland and Australia interested in bringing him into their schools to present this hilarious, powerful, education program.
Over the last three years he has added on cyber bullying programs, authored a Duck Sense Bully Prevention curriculum and speaks at many anti-bullying, bully prevention, girl bullying and principal, teacher, youth and counselor “no bullying” conferences throughout the United States and Canada. After an educational conference, keynote speech or school assembly program, many teachers, parents and students have followed Richard Paul on Twitter, joined the No Bully Club on Facebook or joined in on the No Bullying Blog to share their success stories. Days after Richard’s elementary school assemblies,’ students have sent pictures and letters discussing how they plan to end bullying, improve self-esteem and reduce conflict. At the end of many of Richard’s middle school assembly programs students have shared how his program has motivated them to be better students and inspired them to want to set goals and look forward to their future.
He is a published author and member of International Bully Prevention Association, Association for Conflict Resolution, National Self Esteem Association, Michigan PTA, Michigan Education Association, National Speakers Association and Charter member and former President of the Central Macomb Optimist Club.
Richard’s mission is to change the world “one duck at a time.” By motivating students to appreciate and respect each other, inspiring teachers, school staff and counselors to want to continually offer a daily bully prevention message, promote parental bully prevention involvement and give students the tools needed to get involved, speak up and put an end to this international crisis.
Corporate Bio
Professional award winning keynote speaker, author and certified trainer Richard Paul is internationally known as a leading authority on motivating individuals to include laughter and positive thinking as part of their daily wellness program.
Richard is dedicated to sharing innovative and effective ideas that stimulate a positive thought process and promotes laughter as a significant ingredient to good health and wellness including stress reduction. He has impacted the lives of over 100,000 people from around the world through his motivational keynote speeches on rethinking the mind, stress reduction and humor wellness programs, conflict resolution and tolerance programs.
As a motivational keynote speaker, trainer and facilitator Richard continues to receive high marks on his improvisational humor, hilarious motivational delivery style and his valuable positive life changing principles and stress/fear reduction techniques. His motivational stories, humorous site gags, fun interaction and outrageous audience participation offer many different opportunities for participants to share, learn and better understand how to harness the power of positive thinking as part of their health and wellness criteria at home, work and every day life.
Richards humorous candid practical approach and wealth of mind changing, life challenging, valuable personal motivational strategies have inspired and transformed peoples lives making him one of the most sought after professional opening and or closing keynote speaker.
Richard's clients range from health and fitness such as Michigan Community Public Health Agency, to health insurances organizations such as MESSA to health care providers such as St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital to corporate events 7-11 Food Stores, Farmers Insurance, Webasto Thermosystems, to national and local associations, Federal Executive Association, Employers Association of West Michigan, Toledo Area Human Resources Association, educational institutions such as Michigan Federated Chapters of the Council for Exceptional Children, Michigan State University Extension, Michigan PTA, and government agencies such as Michigan State Police and the Michigan Family Independence Agency.
I saw you speak at the Health forum at the HAP building last week and enjoyed myself immensely!
Monica Bass BENEFITS REPRESENTATIVE UAW Local 892 - Saline
His latest co-authored book "The Better Bottom Line" and humorous, life changing audio book Duck Sense have received rave reviews and have had a profound effect on people's lives. Richard has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press and been interviewed by many radio and television news programs. His numerous motivational, educational articles have been listed as expert status on Ezine Articles.com and isnare.com and his monthly newsletter continues to help people to make better choices and live better lives staying true to Richard number one goal, which is to "change the world one duck at a time."
Richard is a proud member of these organization: Central Macomb Optimist Club, Optimist International and The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (gold member).
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